In fact, the film is not bad, he has good directing, and the actors are wonderful and camera work. It was shot very well, I have no complaints about how it was made, no holes, all the scenes are well played. There is only one thing that crosses out absolutely everything – this movie is about nothing. Apparently, it is of interest to Americans, they have a cult of baseball, they learn the names of teams, the names of players, years, sequences of games, winners. How can you live it? One man throws a ball to another, he hits, then runs after him like a dog. .
Will this movie be interesting to anyone other than the fanatics? The movie is very long, sluggish, it has a lot of long plans. This is usually considered a sign of high-quality camera work and acting, but here it was done to somehow stretch the content despite the fact that the plot in the film is 10 minutes maximum. I'm not a racer, but I was interested in racing movies, I'm not a surfer, but I like surfer movies, the same with hackers, pilots, scientists, military. And then there was absolutely nothing, I looked at the players’ locker room and the manager’s room for 2 hours, they were talking about the first base all over the film, and I didn’t even know what it was in those 2 hours. Yes, there is the subject of a man who went against everyone and proved it, but he did not do it himself, he was given the whole concept by a fat graduate economist. And about how one went against everyone, there are many other films, much more interesting.
The only thing that surprised me was Jonah Hill playing a smart, cultured, shy guy. But he always played morons who burp, fart, kick a severed head, suck in beer, he was never in his life in the role of someone smarter than an oligophrene, and I had the impression that he was. Turns out not. Proof of giving actors different roles.